Nip over to the Monopoly website and vote for one of the Welsh cities which are in the running to make it onto the new ‘Here and Now UK’ Monopoly board.
There are five Welsh cities to choose from: Bangor, St David’s, Swansea, Newport and Cardiff.
Get voting now and ensure that a Welsh city […]

The powers-that-be in Swansea are ready to begin the City Centre Core Retail Area remodel, so be prepared to deal with some inconvenience as they repave streets throughout the city centre. The project is expected to take 23 weeks to complete and should bring some significant improvements to the downtown area.
The city has […]

And I think that rather than rabbit on, I’ll just give you a chance to enjoy the same things I did this morning; the family snow photos everyone is posting on the web. Seems people all round Wales are having great fun building snowmen and taking lovely photos of friends, family and landscapes all […]

Searching the Treehugger archives for the keyword “Wales” brought a respectable number of results - although you’ll always get a fair number of Australian results in there for good luck! (due to New South Wales).
Treehugger, being an environment blog, had to pick up on Wales’ best known environmental establishment: The Centre for Alternative Technology, […]

The UK got its first sprinkling of snow this week with many areas affected.  In Wales we had our fair share and as A Simple Life of Luxury shows, it can make things look even nicer!
Alan, the blog’s author, captured a few great photos of the Welsh landscape with a layer of snow and has uploaded […]

The BBC’s North East Wales blog announces the addition of more old photographs of Wales to the BBC site.  It’s always interesting to see how our local areas have changed over the years and BBC Wales is collating a great selection of images for our viewing pleasure.
Talking of old photographs, take a look at Swansea […]

Browsing blogs again tonight.  The downside is that many of the blogs listed these days seem to be neglected and lacking posts.  But, ocassionally you’ll find something of interest.
I found John Hennessy’s blog via a link somewhere - can’t remember where - and was taken to his latest photograph of Cadair Idris (Snowdonia).  Take a look, […]

Four teams of film makers have undertaken a challenge to make the best short film in the Really Restrictive Shorts project. There are some interesting ‘twists’ to this Big Brother-like competition as the teams are on camera whilst locked in together for the week. Starting Tuesday past, their every move had been telecast […]

Okay, most people cringe when they hear the phrase ‘Call Centre’ but sometimes it can be a good thing.  Here it is good news as Yell, the telephone directory company, is planning to develop a new £3.5m call centre in Newport.
The plan under review will bring 250 new jobs to Newport in support of the […]

The FW Blog is now feeding its RSS feed directly to BlogCymru.
“BlogCymru.com is an aggregator. That doesn’t mean that it lives in swamps and eats bad actors, it means that it draws a number of blogs (or other RSS sources) together in one place. 
The purpose of BlogCymru.com is to draw together stuff (that’s the scientific […]

Jim’s World is a photo blog created by Jim - obviously!  Jim has posted many photos since January 2005 and they high quality too.  He hasn’t missed a month since he started.
Having lived in Swansea for a number of years I find Jim’s blog really interesting and definately something worth bookmarking.
Thanks go to Jim for […]

This seemed a good time to remind us all of the lovely Welsh traditions surrounding the Christmas celebration. The BBC has given us a lovely page on this very topic. So you may want to pay it a visit to enjoy reading and learning about these wonderful customs.
The links in the right-hand column […]